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‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting (www.404media.co)
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[–] 285 points 4 months ago (25 children)

Will they remember this the next time he's up for reelection?

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  • [–] 224 points 4 months ago (17 children)

    Voters have a depressingly short memory.

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    I'm imagining the most wealthy (who think they know what's best for the world, like P.T.) would say something eerily similar to what you are saying.

    The very rich have access to all of the information. One can't expect people who face significant barriers to higher education (and other means of informing themselves) to be on the level of experts, the educated and informed, or the very rich.

    Why are people against experts, the educated, and the informed?

    Partisan news media seems like the likely culprit. A broken political system posing as democracy could be another factor to consider. Opaque algorithms that put people into information bubbles (with the intention to make them addicted and as uninformed/reactionary as possible) are definitely a major factor.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Why are people against experts, the educated, and the informed?

    I’m just thinking how for most of history, humanity put these people on a pedestal and let them get away with a lot (through religion, in most cases I think).

    I think your culprits are accurate.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I wasn't making a political point with the video, but your points are interesting.

    I agree that, as far as I understand it right now, body-reviewed policies are the democracy we should have.

    How about also requiring someone to have experience or a degree in a specific field to vote on specific issues? For example, I've been working in tech for a decade, I should be able to vote on technology policies, but not on medical policies.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    hm this name I heard before, this one I don't know. I'll just vote for the same person.

    or not vote at all

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The number of people who vote by the top name is higher than you expect.

    Last name start with a B and your opponent's last is a T.... you're getting a head start just because of that alone.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    If I dont know any of the candidates, I vote against the declared republican by voting for the declared Democrat. If a republican is running unopposed, I write in Barack Obama. I was a swing voter before Donald Trump became president.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Fuck elections, these types of people require more immediate consequences.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Lots of recall campaigns have successfully been done. They have the benefit of being very public and attention grabbing by nature. That's if more immediate ejection/dismissal mechanisms don't exist on a panel/committee.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    You're operating under the assumption that these people haven't already made the calculation that wherever bribe they received is worth their position.

    So recalling them, or voting them out, after they've done what they were bribed/blackmailed to do, isn't the threat, or check on power, that many here believe it to be.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Even if he lose he will be hired by flock, it works this ways sadly.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Meh. Flock isn't big enough to hire every rando county commissioner that buys their garbage. This isn't Lockheed hiring a retiring general or some K street group picking up a friendly senator.

    And even if they do hire him, at least he's not in a position supposedly representing anyone anymore.

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